point to national stories for you now after being recognized by several western nations as legitimate the syrian opposition is now welcoming cash support the french government allocated one of the half million dollars this week in aid to the coalition citing the night ten situation in the country as the main reason france was the first power to officially acknowledge the alliance as the sole representative of the syrian people by testing because washington is now leading efforts to make the greek government in exile serve as a counterweight to the asset regime. russia fired back saying it's unacceptable to france one hundred coalition that stands against the officially recognized

government. is taking us to professor hall shelton put says paris says any pursuing short term financial goals. france major interest would be to continue with so large armaments throughout the world. but it i don't think it really cured serve just as they didn't here in the case of libya all they were of course tomorrow was going to happen if they didn't really care who took over afterwards they probably more thing the so-called syrian opposition leaders that they are not united the only thing unites the militant they would like to remove the current government they come from a very wide range of. religious viewpoints. viewpoint think origins are their thing ever were to succeed in syria that they were not be able to come together and they would be in no round of fighting to determine who will. dominate all the other groups. but france isn't the only country with inter

pump aid into the middle east region the u.s. is now assisting libya as the country attempts to reestablish its military after last year's civil war but it's artie's going to chicken reports now washington's offer of help may not be an entirely selfless act. the pentagon's new outlook forget about full scale invasion is and large footprint occupations instead think of special ops and prophecy aren't just next destination libya the obama administration has received congressional approval to allocate money for a special unit reportedly made up of some five hundred people who will train the country's forces according to one libyan militia commander a team of americans is already in the country looking for recruits a major obstacle in their way a vastly divided society there isn't an army and libya now and the army is not going to be because whenever you try and get militias which have a legion says to

a variety of rays of things that the national interest so they have allegiance to a drive or to a sect or to a religion rather than having allegiance to the nation or to the country you cannot build an army but with training and aid fully via the u.s. we have more pragmatic goals then uniting the army you were just teaching them the best way to fight this war training essentially because it's really about not so much about you know teaching people how to use rifles and how to use new equipment it's all about really more about indoctrination make up an e.a. one of the children the us uses and as you know very successfully. in short the elites in the countries concerned stay loyal to the u.s. . a lot in terms of foreign policy a state law to them in terms of opening their economies up. to u.s. multinationals who would be and will be very important. for the united states and

yes it will start buying american arms and substantial qualities libya's lots and lots of money to spend according to the state department this year along the u.s. spent six point three billion dollars financing foreign armies it argues investing in foreign militaries helps build. better alliances and further american interests abroad from the point of view of the u.s. government of course it's very useful to have other countries militaries integrated into the us they get the training then they get the equipment they get the arms it's the full package the idea of proxy armies is not new to the various truck record of training foreign armies has hardly been flawless you have the school of americas for instance which is trained all the the armies that became the torturers of latin america that started after world war two i would say the training troops is especially in the middle east in the case of iraq or in afghanistan something of a catastrophe it's premised on a fantasy that if the u.s. buys the uniforms gives them the guns provides in the training that somehow these

will be reliable forces you can see in the case of afghanistan the governments are united the governments are partners but the afghan troops don't consider the americans to be their friends in fact they consider them to be cultural aliens who are occupying their country more than fifty coalition troops were killed this year alone by members of the afghan security forces or it is out that the obama administration wants to leave around ten thousand troops in afghanistan to continue to train afghan forces and carry out special operations after twenty four teeth when according to the obama administration american forces are supposed to have left the country the afghan government has less than two years to we'll reject the idea the u.s. government may be looking at training armies abroad is a smart investment sort of like outsourcing makes sense in business it's cheaper than having u.s. troops on the ground no need to explain dead troops coming home makes sense from a lot of perspectives but that strategy has backfired more than once in the past

populations that didn't want to see their military become a student of washington's wars in washington i'm gonna check out. more well news in brief this hour taliban suicide bombers have attacked a joint us afghan military base in the city of tire. about in eastern afghanistan two vehicles parked explosives were detonated at the main gate or by gunfire although none of the terrorists involved would kill it also says at least six afghans died several alliance troops injured this in the largest such attack in the city since february when a suicide bomb attack claimed the lives carroll's. c.c.t.v. footage has revealed a collapsed tunnel in japan where at least five people have been killed authorities say the instant that an unknown number of vehicles trapped rescue mission has been complicated like thick smoke from a fire inside the tunnel the road remains closed while the cause

a collapse is understood. but russia's a second largest mobile phone operator megaphone offered its shares to the public in moscow in london this week and then watch them slide in the first hours of trading become did manage to bounce back though to close the placement level on the offering raised one point seven billion dollars russia's biggest since you sell back in twenty ten. shares were priced twenty dollars each autumn and it's estimated range listing is part of the agreement which made her believe you shit was more important company and its owner . america's silicon valley gods where it is today through the imagination of the world's brightest brains but they didn't do it alone for an apartment pioneering entrepreneur helped mold its reputation that seemed jeopardy in their strict visa rules mean they're a dying breed but in the question ever discovered. silicon valley.

lots of sharing helping each other even competitors will help each other some of the biggest brands on the planet and all instantly associated with america but surprisingly the majority were created by foreigners. jerry yang who was born in taipei surrogate britain whose parents came from russia when he was six or pierre omidyar an iranian born in paris silicon valley has thrived thanks largely to immigrants people who came here with their dreams and had the drive to make them a reality they transformed this plays into an unreliable haunt for high tech development the birthplace of global pioneers one person who helps those outsiders to get a foot in the door is german born and how it could blend struck she says the valley moves so fast that it seems skilled foreigners springing up left right and center

literally average day and there is a simple reason such success is coming their way so many of the of the indians and chinese that come in the others they make these great companies and then they hire people so they are really giving work i think they're hungry for the words they want to succeed they're driven the valley's biggest price came with the boom of immigrants in the ninety's that brought innovations in software and internet services the numbers speak for themselves just over half of the companies found it in silicon valley from the mid ninety's to the mid to thousands had founders born abroad believe us research says there is a case to one for him born inventor behind three quarters off after a new patient and like for many others getting impatient for a start up is what brought julia to palo alto her project is called smart wall and works is a messaging tool for those who want to avoid social networks most of the people that are that i see are foreigners and also there are

a lot of americans that are not from here so they're also coming it's it's not a matter of nationality here it's a matter of the real skills that you have but there are some clouds on the california sky currently over half of foreign born inventiveness face a visa hurdles the end. knowing economic recession has broad deep fears at home and about much needed jobs going into hands that have come from abroad making it hard for many to understand that foreigners can actually bring benefits to times when america so desperately needs them but i think that's something that white america doesn't get they did understand why. because they don't because i think that a lot of the fears are still oh they're taking our jobs away america prides itself on being a melting pot of a country where thousands flocked for a better life but u.s. immigration policy may put an end to all that i do not question artsy. well

shortly as promised earlier one of the britain's most activist trade unions tells our team why it's going to be a bleak winter for workers. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natale issue of oil is the norm or should test small arms so there's a lot almost machine building plant not all these sourced count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no wait i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advance in germans so if you were

also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the massive moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory brushes the number one truck made for girls a look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was so production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe hayabusa brand new be the way to be delivered to acquire seventy trucks like this one roll up the bronx conveyor belt every day look at about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. well i can go for it.

was fun to get one of these to travel to whatever it was with the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving money. today i'm talking to bob crow he's one of the u.k.'s most notorious union leaders he heads up the are empty the underground drivers union but chris thanks for talking to us now just in the past couple of weeks your members have gone on two separate strikes train cleaners and underground maintenance workers you've gained this reputation as the most strike happy union leader why are you so quick to take action like this or not quicker actually the action of mean we have to have

a power of our members a secret ballot the ballots conducted in the members are in arms they can vote yes or no we always put a recommendation which was issued photo of the sleeve we recommend they do take action we have the employer seven days notice before we start the ballot when we get the ballot result when we think of seven days now it's a month just for the ballot in process so we never actually conduct negotiations for a sign of a ballot for a strike action we put a climb in we try to get what we can without going on strike for eighty percent of our members we achieve what we want without going on strike for those employers that always in and not be paid to get members a fair deal then those two options bicycle you accept what the employer is offering or we say to our members who are do something about it and in the mine and members say they want to fight for a prime conditions let's take those two strikes as an example what percentage of your members voted in those ballots in the true blind spot of the maintenance

workers why. the workers that work on the truly northern piccadilly line there was about fifty four percent turnout on the cleaners one there was one about thirty five percent. thirty seven percent doesn't sound like very many know me and we would like more people to vote but they got the opportunity to vote some people don't vote because they want to see what the opposite doing but when you look at the local elections in britain a local councillors are making decisions on people's cancel tracks and local rates and local decisions there are ten eleven percent of the electorate vote transport strikes can be some of the most disruptive even the short ones that we see now how do you justify making people's lives a misery when essentially all they're trying to do is get to work on what we always apologize i mean we actually support the traveling public who we don't want to cause misery to them we want to get them from a to b. or repeated to get them to work or to see their loved ones in hospital or to enjoy themselves socially we want the railways and the buses to work in good for the

travelling public but in that are you know you can't make an omelet and they should crack eggs and if your movie involves mounts of people on a public metro system that as soon as there's a problem then there's chaos but it takes two to tango it in the day you know it's the employers fault was well if we take action if the employer negotiated a proper someone with us there we would say action but some storms you know you have to stand up and side with the impiety when you've been inside with defending conditions and it does cause disruption i mean and some so i'm says that economic position because the employees come to the table and negotiate seriously of us isn't it your job to make those negotiations work without going on strike yes i mean our job is to actually go and try and persuade the employer. and hopefully that the argument is conceded by the employer in a lot of occasions there aren't is conceivable the employer a lot of occasions the employer and ask compromise and we reach

a settlement inside. i'm average the employer says they're not in the pay it's about one inch and therefore the members of the make a decision to accept what the employees do in order to stand up and for having said all that strikes do you seem to be as terrifying a prospect as they once were why do you think that is well ended i mean it's not the tariff on in the day is that the members are employed by the employer to do a job so once that person is not employed anymore e.g. by your own straw it has an effect within a company. the reality is that workers haven't got much power at all all of the in the dry is that the employer is going to cut their prime conditions is to combine together to defend their selves one worker in their own can do nothing but when workers combine and be part of a union they came the time was all your members would have thought of themselves as working class but now there's much more of a tendency for people to refer to themselves as middle class has that affected the propensity to strike to think not really knowing that in little way what is poor class more is middle class or that knowing of explain what it means. a lot of

people. shares and buy the home an arm they become middle class because their stand on the dole queue near with the same shares in their back pocket makes no point at the financial times of reading every day if you stay in the doll looking for a job so to me working class and middle class or the word means or another is all of you come to work when you sell your labor to the employer or the employer. to do that work so the money as a boss is class and if the working class is not such thing as a middle class you're now proposing another winter of discontent walkouts and demonstrations surely nothing could be more damaging to britain's prospects for recovery than that thought or no i mean the reality is. public sector workers. more you must i certainly know pay was for two years they've seen their pensions go up by three percent. then they're seeing their child benefit for

a lot of beans. and what that really means is a massive attack on the stand to live in where inflation is going up by about nine or not percent in two years some of these people are no payrolls at all and their pensions have been put up on top of that they've been asked for the next two years to accept one percent over the next two years as well so we're not supporting the will of this consent to cause the structure with that it's about it's own that workers say the nuff said nuff but you're not suggesting surely that the situation here is this bad as that in their pigs country it's it's not bad for everyone but it's certainly bad for them some people those people the public sector lost their job those people or their child benefit stopped those people or their pensions put up our feet is very very bad for them and for these kids these young kids now leaving school what kind of hope will they go up wanting for them is on the dole even if they go to university and get a fifty thousand pain in their neck to clear student where they can get a job where they're going to go home and where they're pinching the baby when they

retire there is no hope at all for these young kids and we feel there's a back on the future out there you're one of only three union leaders who support the idea of a general strike why can't you carry the other union leaders with you well that's not absolutely true that the leaders but certainly the unions do support the practicalities of looking at a general strike at the two you see congress this year the resolution was passed that we look at the practicalities of it now be the practicalities mean that we can't but we surely should look at it off onto the other unions don't they so it doesn't worry me being the minority in the minority most more life but find that later on in life the minority position or took is now the majority position and people support mean it was years ago that people would be said seen dead with nelson mandela there every single poll in the world or as we've seen with nelson mandela because it looks so sexy and progressive so are things can change the fact

is that these young kids are not in the. this forever more they're not going to have a lot of time on the dole and what we really see is all the gains that was made since world war two in this country a national service comprehensive education a social state that's all be that massively eroded and therefore the only option we've got is to either give our children a worser saw a or like air fathers and grandfathers and grandmothers and mothers gave us a bit as are you more of you in life is to make things better for people not worse you talk about the practicalities of a general strike i think people would like to know what you look out before you endorse that i dare well number one is surely a legal restriction in this country. there's been a doctrine produced boy professor keith you're in pain john hendy q.c. leading barristers who are signing but you came out of a political strike it's been international law where scientists have a look at where they start to see if we can do it what are the repercussions of

going ahead with their. what unions were prepared to support so there you should be looking at the executive so you see i've decided there will be ready by the general council we mean it's month and we'll be old he not only will be arguing that if people can't persuade me that they can't have a general strike when we should be proceeding head to name a dye in the spring called general strike there hasn't been a general strike for eighty six years how do you expect to carry the general public with you or a general strike in twenty six probably none of us can remember it or certainly don't but i've been a couple of days a variation since then the seven is for example five dock workers were put in prison called part of your five and the two you see general council called a strike unless these people were taken out of prison there's also the director that we had last november on the thirtieth which is a massive demonstration we had the mess. demonstration this year

a couple of weeks ago a massive demonstration both in london a couple of weeks ago also in clans and belfast as well so i think there's massive amount of support and support generates when people see it's. not be able to afford to go to university their kids not be able to get social housing their mothers not being able to get them all the social benefits being around the child benefit being stopped. that is got to do something about it and i think. is that you are you nineteen and loads of people this country from different walks of life society that the government's policies are wrong and they going down the abyss really unless we put them out there because now and kids back to work what do you say to accusations that your your bellicose attitude is destroying not just the are empty but the union movement as a whole that these strikes and walk out sometimes over the welfare of just one

single worker is what led to us all falling out with the union movement back in the seventy's well number one we're certainly not wrecking the arm to your membership going up from fifty two thousand when i got elected. the now we knew you have doubled. over fifty percent in ten years and certainly we've achieved on the best pyrolysis. across the bridge in this great i mean we go in one world. well that's the reason you join the union because that work maybe you tomorrow and you expect your union support you if you has been dismissed so i mean literally we ain't got no power toss the workers at the pile in the spring for the ballot in the great hall using their indoctrination if so. what we do in the di is make it quite clear we are all trying to try and persuade the poles that crazy. we want world money and. we certainly don't live from the moment what we call want to go to die.

we would love to be ram and saw in everything. but once the employer takes their position and that position is not acceptable to our membership members then we can remember the option for it if you don't fight then you're the put up with the boss resign you do want to fight he got you also when you weighed in on the floor if george osborne having first class on a train with the wrong take it is it that you think that even the person who holds the second most important state post in the country should be travelling out to an apex you say no not so often care less if you try was first class first class so it was on members working a first class that's not the issue the issue was the why you that you spoke to the member of staff and save you know i am always i'd say that you know i am you know i'm busy. busy but use the same person said wallace both together on his boat together the various everyone else thank you very much thank you.

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